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A discourse on foods and their raw materials, with references and examples from works of both contemporary and earlier literature.
The Athenian was born in Naucratis, Egypt, lived in Alexandria, and died in Rome. His life, about which our information is scarce, seems to have unfolded between the end of the 2nd century and the beginning of the 3rd century AD (approximately 170-230 AD), as can be inferred from internal evidence within his works.
The Athenian, a product of late Sophism, remains in the realm of ancient Greek literature as the author of the Banquet Philosophers. The work is characterized as a manual of gastronomy (it is the oldest book we have with instructions for the preparation of dishes), but it is also a rich source of material concerning banqueting and typical symposia, and furthermore, an encyclopedic compendium of knowledge covering all areas of human interest.
Moreover, the Banquet Philosophers is a composition with successive citations from hundreds of authors of poetic and prose works (about 800), and from more than three times as many (around 2500) works, so that one might say that, had this highly important source not survived, our knowledge of Greek antiquity would be incomplete.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Athinaios o Naykratitis
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kaktos
- Genre
- Ancient Greek Literature
- Subtitle
- Diphosphonist B
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 275
- Release Date
- 01/01/1997
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 13x21 cm
- Language
- Greek
- Original text
- No
- Translation
- No
- Bilingual edition
- Yes
- ISBN-13
- 9789603524267
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